Dialogue Simulation and Context Dynamics for Dialogue Management
Simon Keizer, Roser Morante · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2007
In this paper we describe DISCUS, a re-search tool for developing a context model and update algorithm for dialogue manage-ment. The model builds on Dynamic Inter-pretation Theory (DIT), in which dialogue is modelled in terms of dialogue acts op-erating on the information state of the di-alogue participants. On the basis of dia-logue act specifications of both system and user utterances, DISCUS performs the up-date of the system’s context model. The con-text model is structured into several compo-nents and contains complex elements involv-ing the beliefs and goals of both system and user. We will present simulations of two di-alogues, one for demonstrating the context update model, and another in which the sys-tem utterances are generated automatically.